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As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
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 Looking for new colleague to the team https://www.maptiler.com/jobs/#a3c2870f-154c-4fcb-a656-32c4d440185f Raster data expert. It's about downloading, tiling, automating, cataloguing .. . I'm pleased to announce https://overpass-ultra.us/docs It doesn't cover writing overpass queries much because there's plenty of good documentation about that already IMO. The main focus is how to use MapLibre styling to make maps in ultra, to which end it includes a section containing ports of many of the MapLibre GL JS examples.  Last week I was due to give a presentation on openstreetmap-website development at the State of the Map Europe conference in Łódź 🇵🇱 Unfortunately I got ill on the morning of the second day! So I've made a home recording of my presentation. Although it's a poor substitute for doing it live, I hope it's still interesting to watch: "What's New With Our Website" As it says at the end, comments and questions are welcome! @gravitystorm Thanks for recording and publishing that, really interesting to know all these almost invisible changes are ongoing. Just discovered in amazement that in Bash scripts, any variable named `SECONDS` will automatically increment every second. Bash is bonkers
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 @Cykelero@mas.to I read all those "Switzerland now requires gov software to be open source" stories, and can't help but think. "Microsoft requires all libraries used in their systems to be open source" Like, is there something missing?..
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@baldur That's probably how things are going at work-school - we're using a service called TeachMate AI. It's LLM based. Most of the teachers won't touch the thing, but at least two of the couple of hundred we employ* must have had glowing things to say because they got featured in the company newsletter urging the other teachers to please use it. It can write lesson plans and mark essays! We all know the real reason: So we can lay off teachers. *It's not one school, it's a chain of schools. There is a gulf between playing games and the gamification of events. Playing games is deeply human. Gamification is a way to make money. https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2021/02/playing-games-and-gamification #design #play #gamification #education #learning #improv #GameDev I wrote a blog post about what it is like being #womenintech within the framework of #moralphilosophy and ethics. #consistencyforthewin https://irenezhang.net/blog/2024/07/24/misogyny.html
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 If this blog post brought an experience to mind for you and you want to share, I’ve created a GitHub repo. Please post anonymously by creating a new account. https://github.com/iyzhang/misogyny/issues   @maproomblog My colleagues @grimalkina, @CSLee, @flourn0, and I are excited to announce a new project: The Developer Science Review! https://dsl.pubpub.org/ The Developer Science Review is a scientific overlay journal highlighting empirical research that the scientists and software engineers in the Developer Success Lab think is relevant for people interested in the science of #DeveloperThriving and #DeveloperExperience.
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 @KFosterMarks @grimalkina @CSLee @flourn0 aaaaand I know what I’m putting in work slack this morning @KFosterMarks @grimalkina @CSLee @flourn0 good job! Finally a nice clear centralized resource for science backed practice! :blobaww: @amapanda Roman in the russian group shared this article: https://habr.com/ru/articles/830334/ It's in Russian, but deals with determining the best width for a river to be displayed on a map, which I think relates to the flow measurement you did (based on distance). "Скорость течения" means "flow speed", for pictures.  @zverik that's cool. The wisdom that I pass on to young cartographers today: if you’re struggling with colors, lose them all—except one. I’m much more pleased with this map so far than with any of my attempts using normal “trail map” colors. My God, this is the best poem I've read in months. "When My Daughter Tells Me I was Never Punk," by Jessica Walsh.   Are you a wikipedia editor? Can you help us improve the article about the historically important OpenStreetMap editor Potlatch? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch_(software) Before the wikipedia admins try to disappear it into obscurity again "This is not and will not be notable" 500,000+ users say otherwise.  @Firefishy maybe @edward or @seav have some ideas? I’ve personally been somewhat discouraged about Wikipedia for similar reasons. They seem to be flagging a lot of stuff as just not “notable” enough. We are pleased to share that the SotM 2024 Programme is now out! Check the website now: https://2024.stateofthemap.org/programme/ Have you booked your conference ticket? Early bird rates is still available until the end of the month! https://2024.stateofthemap.org/tickets/ my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI. what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes
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 @seachanger Agreed! Also, all those things that people actually want? Could be delivered without pouring gasoline on a planet-sized fire! @seachanger yesterday I used AI to transcribe 80 hours of audio. It's a tool that can be used for good or evil. The cat is out of the bag so there's no going back. @seachanger Nobody marched in favor of diesel engines. |
@catc0n “Save a cow, eat a CEO.”
@catc0n so much power... and no Dyson sphere in sight
Such projections are just another form of "drill, drill, drill" , quite literally they want to see the world burn up
@catc0n
1. it takes 1.875 gigawatts
2. nuclear plant offers 1 gigawatt
3. there’s no way we can meet the demand
not sure how these statements can follow each other and not be a joke
okay fine, i’ll say it. 2 nuclear power plants. we can do it with 2 of them. that’s how it’s possible.
maybe we shouldn’t be shutting down nuclear power. that seems, in hindsight, to have been a very bad idea